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TROM THE 

PRESIDENT 

OF THE 

UNITED STA T E S, 

TRANSMITTING 

THE CONVENTION 

BETWEEN THE 

UNITED STATES and GREAT BRITAIN, 

IN RELATION 

TO THE SIXTH ARTICLE OF THE TREATY 

OF 

AMITY, COMMERCE & NAVIGATION, 

BETWEEN 

THE TWO NATIONS. 



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2nh APRIL, 1802. 

Read^ and ordered to be referred to the Committee of Ways 

and Means* 



WASHINGTON city: 
PRINTED BY WILLIAM DUANE. 

1802, 



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Gentlemen of the Senate and of tke 
House of Representatives y 

THE Commissioners who were appointed to 
carry into execution the Vlth article of the treaty of 
amity, commerce and navigation between the United 
States and Great Britain, having differed in their con- 
struction of that article, and separated in consequence 
of that difference, the President of the United States 
took immediate measures for obtaining conventional 
explanations of that article for the government of the 
commissioners ; finding, however, great difficulties 
opposed to a settlement in that way, he authorised our 
minister at the court of London to meet a proposition 
that the United States, by the payment of a fixed sum, 
should discharge themselves from their responsibility 
for such debts as cannot be recovered from the indi- 
vidual debtors. A convention has accordingly been 
signed, fixing the sum to be paid at six hundred thou- 
sand pounds sterling, in three equal and annual in- 
stalments, which has been ratified by me with the 
advice and consent of the senate. 

I now transmit copies thereof to the two houses 
of congress, trusting, that in the free exercise of the 
authority which the constitution has given them on 
the subject of public expenditures, they will deem it 
for the public interest to appropriate the sums neces- 
sary for carrying this convention into execution. 

TH: JEFFERSON. 

April 27, 1802. 



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C ON VEN TION 

> BETWEEN 

(jEnglanD anD tfte dniteU ^mzs, 

CONCLUDED AT LONDON, JANUARY THE 8th, 1802. 



Accompanying a written message from the President^ received 
the 27th April, 1802. 



JDlFFICULTIES having arisen in the exe- 
cution of the sixth article of the treaty of amity, 
commerce and navigation, concluded at London, 
on the fourth day of November, one thousand seven 
hundred and ninety-four, between his Britannic 
Majesty and the United States of America, and in 
consequence thereof the proceedings of the com- 
missioners under the seventh article of the same 
treaty having been suspended, the parties to the said 
treaty being equally desirous, as far as may be, to 
obviate such difficulties, have respectively named 
plenipotentiaries to treat and agree respecting the 
same, that is to say his Britannic Majesty has named 
for his plenipotentiary, the right honourable Robert 
Banks Jenkinson, commonly called lord Hawkesbury, 
one of his Majesty's most honourable privy council, 
and his principal secretary of state for foreign affairs ; 



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and the President of the United States, by and with 
the advice and consent of the senate thereof, has 
named for their plenipotentiary Rufus King, Esquire, 
minister plenipotentiary of the said United States to i 
his Britannic Majesty, who have agreed to and con- 
^:luded the following articles : — 

ARTICLE I. 

In satisfaction and discharge of the money / 
which the United States might have been liable to 
pay in pursuance of the provisions of the said sixth 
article, which is hereby declared to be cancelled and 
annulled, except so far as the same may relate to the 
execution of the said seventh article, the United 
States of America hereby engage to pay, and his 
Britannic Majesty consents to accept for the use of 
the persons described in the said sixth article, the 
sum of six hundred thousand pounds sterling, pay- 
able at the times and place, and in the manner fol- 
lowing, that is to say, the said sum of six hundred 
thousand pounds sterling shall be paid at the city of 
Washington, in three annual instalments of two 
hundred thousand pounds sterling each, and to such 
person or persons as shall be authorised by his Bri- 
tannic Majesty, to receive the same ; the first of the 
said instalments to be paid at the expiration of one 
year ; the second instalment at the expiration of 
two years ; and the third and last instalment at the 
expiration of three years next following the exchange 
of the ratifications of this convention. And to pre- 
vent any disagreement concerning the rate of ex- 
changes the said payments shall be made in the 
money of the said United States, reckoning four 
dollars and forty-ibur cents to be equal to one pound 
sterling. 




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ARTICLE II. 



Whereas it is agreed by the fourth article of the 
definitive treaty of peace, concluded at Paris, on the 
third day of September, one thousand seven hundred 
tmd eighty-three, between his Britannic Majesty and 
tlte United States, that creditors on either side should 
tiik^t With no lav>^ful impediment to the recovery of the 
fuljl/value in sterling money of all " bonxi fide'' debts 
tEeretofore contracted ; it is hereby declared that die 
said fourth article, so far as respects its future opera- 
tion, is hereby recognized, confirmed and declared 
to be binding and obligatory on his Britannie Majesty 
and the said United States, and the same shall be ac- 
cordingly observed with punctuality and good faith, 
and so as that the said creditors shall hereafter meet 
with no lawful impediment to the recovery of the full 
value In sterling money of their bona fide debts, 

ARTICLE nx. 

It is furthermore agreed and concluded that the 
comftnissioners appointed in /pursuance of the seventh 
article of the said treaty of amity, commerce and na- 
vigation, and whose proceedings have been suspended 
as aforesaid, shall immediately after the signature of 
this convention, reassemble and proceed in the exe- 
cution of their duties, according to the provisions of 
the said seventh article, except only, that instead^ 
the sums awarded by the said commissioner*H:!^ing 
made payable at the time or times by them appointed, 
all sums of money by thepi awarded to be paid to 
American or British claimants, according to the pro- 
visions of the said seventh article, shall be made pay- 
able in three equal instalments, the first whereof, to 
be paid at the expiration of one year ; the second at 
the expiration of two years ; and the third and last at 



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the expiration of three years next after the exchange 
of the ratifications of this convention. ' 

ARTICLE IV. 

This convention, when the same shall liave beeti 
ratified by his Majesty, and by the President of the 
United States, by and with the advice and consCtot o^ 
the Senate thereof, and the respective ratificanon 
duly exchanged, shall be binding and obligatory up- 
on his Majesty and the said United States. 

In faith whereof, We the undersigned plenipo- 
tentiaries of his Britannic Majesty, and of the United 
States of America, by virtue of our respective full 
powers, have signed the present convention, and, 
have caused the seals of our arms to be afiixedj 
thereto. 

DONE at London the eighth day of January, | 
one thousand eight hundred and two. ' 

HAWKESBURY, (l. s.) 
RUFUS KING. (l. s.) 



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